To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.